Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 7 July 2014 to Question 203493, what the Counter Terrorism Programme Fund budget was for 2014-15.

The former member for Richmond (Yorks), the Rt Hon William Hague, in his Written Ministerial Statement of 10 July 2014, Official Report, column 30WS, confirmed that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) allocation for Security Programming in 2014/15 would be £21.75m. Of this, £15m was allocated to the Counter Terrorism Programme Fund. Some activity previously funded by the Counter Terrorism Programme has been moved to other parts of Government. The FCO does not release details of specific activities funded by the Counter Terrorism Programme for operational and security reasons.